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Re: BAST METHOD
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:50:36 +0100
- Subject: Re: [xsl] BAST METHOD
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> //DOCUMENT/HEAD/TITLE or
> //TITLE
rule number 1 any ise of // is likely to be slow.
//DOCUMENT/HEAD/TITLE
will search the entire document looking for DOCUMENT elements
//TITLE
will search the entire document looking for TITLE elements
(/DOCUMENT/HEAD/TITLE)[1]
will tell the system to only find one TITLE element in that place.
the (..)[1] makes it less readable and the chance that it makes any
measurable difference in the time taken is rather small, but changing //
to / can make a huge difference.
David
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